BlockBlackmer, North Dakota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fairmount Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58030. The Survey maps it on the Boisberg quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1915 USGS White Rock quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS White Rock quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Boisberg quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blackmer in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blackmer | - | Large branches were blown down. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blackmer | - | Several three to five inch diameter tree branches were broken down in farm shelterbelts after a short burst of strong winds and very heavy rain. Some pea sized hail also fell. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Blackmer | - | The hail was mostly pea to dime sized but a few quarter sized hailstones mixed in late. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033741. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.